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sunken treasure

Posted on June 23, 2008 @ 10:53 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, diving, fun, wordpress

Practically every diver has fantasized about discovering sunken treasure. Although there is more treasure still lost in the ocean than has been recovered, the average diver is unlikely to accidentally find it. The chances of stumbling upon underwater riches are minuscule, and the coast of intentionally seeking it out is high…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: hoard

stonefish

Posted on June 23, 2007 @ 6:28 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, diving, fear, wordpress

stonefish aynaku illustration travel

Many fish use camouflage to blend into their surroundings. Camouflage has two purposes: it helps fish avoid being eaten and allows them to make sneak …among them stonefish are found in the tropical waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Averaging about 30 centimeters in length, their subdued colors and lumpy shape provide them with exceptional camouflage. Few fish can match the sinister reputation of the stone fish: when stepped on, the fins in the dorsal spine inflict an extremely painful and sometimes fatal wound. The stonefish is a master of disguise and deception, it looks like a piece of coral or sand covered rock, so alas, never put your bare hands upon rocks while diving tropical seas: it turns out to be really dangerous sometimes!

Illustration Friday’s topic is: camouflage

About IF’s rejection, here are three works I like: cate anevsky ; gee,that’s swell ; zari_ZHM

hovering

Posted on February 17, 2007 @ 6:33 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, diving, fun, wordpress

gravity diving aynaku illustration travel

Gravity attracts towards the centre of the earth. On the contrary, we all wish to fly and set us free from this fundamental law of nature, but just in dreams we fly! And unless we can afford an intergalactic voyage, we will never experience what really means to live with no load of gravity. As a child I remember myself watching TV and gazing curiously at those funny fellows hovering inside some very spacecraft: how happily they smiled despite their complicated equipments and the absolute lack of freedom… I guess that vision has been enough for me to make the sudden decision of diving. In fact underwater hovering is an exciting experience, something really similar to space hovering: I heard that astronauts themselves train for a long time below the sea surface before attempting their expeditions and spacewalks. And both environments are similar as well: cold, blue still and deeply silent…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: gravity

claustrophobia

Posted on September 24, 2006 @ 4:57 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, diving, people, philippines, wordpress

In clear water at 30 meters, everything is blue-grey; in murky water at the same depth, there maybe no light at all. Here divers consume air rapidly and usually experience nitrogen narcosis that tends …

stingray

Posted on April 16, 2006 @ 11:36 am by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, diving, fear, philippines, wordpress

Stingrays are a triangular flat shape with conspicuous spots on a light brown disc; the spots are well-spaced in young but crowded to form reticulated pattern in adult. White ventrally with a …

fish feeding

Posted on February 3, 2006 @ 6:16 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, diving, fun, wordpress

I worked as a dive master for a few months. Basically I wanted to dive for free. Truly, I wasn’t too much concerned about those training exercises and problems solving abilities, a dive master has to deal with…
So …

ecology

Posted on January 14, 2006 @ 5:05 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, blog, diving, travel, wordpress

If you go off beaten roads and stroll along the leeward sea shore, easily you’ll watch natives diving in shallow waters. They do spear-fishing, home-made wooden goggles on, and a rough spike in a …

underwater guru

Posted on October 1, 2005 @ 10:44 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, diving, fun, wordpress

“Hovering! That’s the supreme underwater task: control your breathing, keep your body floating between bottom and surface… perhaps meditate!”
I still remember my diving-instructor tips and I remember the underwater scene: imagine this …

depth

Posted on September 11, 2005 @ 7:46 am by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, diving, wordpress

Have you ever tried deep diving? Puffing and puffing, you get somewhere – let’s say at a depth of fifty meters – and suddenly realize that the bottom is some hundred meters more underneath your belly…absolutely too much …

angel fish…

Posted on August 9, 2005 @ 9:09 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, diving, wordpress

Every time I snorkel or dive, I get the same wonderful feeling: surprise is the right word! Truly, I am still not able to overcome my childish attitude towards underwater species. What really hits me is their wide range …

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